Awfulness Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy. — Louise Doughty
I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I… — Susan Hayward
All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly.… — Patrick Warburton
I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother… — Lynda Barry
A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast, if he would see Nature… — Augustus William Hare
After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everythingâ€™s changedâ€¦.thereâ€™s a hole. Itâ€™s person-shaped and it follows you everywhereâ€¦. For us what was… — Elizabeth McCracken
Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another? — Peter De Vries
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not… — Desmond Tutu
Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have… — Marisha Pessl
This boy has negative charisma. He walks into a room and the oxygen starts to evaporate. I guess that's why girls sleep with him. They… — Emma Forrest
I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to… — Sarah Waters
. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other… — John Boyne
It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always something Much Worse... If I really wanted to be passionately embraced… — Dorothy L. Sayers
However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for… — Herman Melville
His eyes were frighteningly alive, the curve of his mouth savage and pleased. It suddenly didn't seem at all surprising that he should be able… — Maggie Stiefvater
In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys. — Maggie Stiefvater
Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the… — Desmond Tutu
A person would never wish for tragedy, but there can be a kind of transformation that results. There is an awfulness to it, but also… — Terry Tracy

Who Wrote These Awfulness Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 19 Awfulness Quotes as follows: